TheDawnOfANewTage
Dahlin, it’ll all be fine
- Dec 17, 2018
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Just looking to learn more about strategies and how coaching can impact the game. I played low level youth hockey, and the coaches didn’t do much beside set lines and call for changes. We worked drills in practice, some of them were good, but there wasn’t much in the way of forecheck strategy or anything. I do remember practicing breakouts a lot.
Anyways, not ragging on my old coaches, they were just dads doing a good thing and I got a lot out of it- but I’m curious what the Coopers of the world bring to the table, or even what a “real” youth coach adds.
I guess I grew up thinking the coach doesn’t do much in terms of Xs and Os, but I’m probably wrong on that. And pp is probably about more than icing the 5 best players, so I’m just looking for some insights on specific strategies.
Also, I played beer league a while back, and our captain gave some odd guidance. Nice guy, but he got into the game as an adult, and it was just amazing to see everyone standing around, unavailable for passes, be praised as “spreading out”. Ok, ya, the guy behind their net and the one behind their d-man are doing a lot for the breakout.. just interesting to see full-grown men who like this sport be so clueless about it at times, and the head guy kinda guiding it.
Anyways, not ragging on my old coaches, they were just dads doing a good thing and I got a lot out of it- but I’m curious what the Coopers of the world bring to the table, or even what a “real” youth coach adds.
I guess I grew up thinking the coach doesn’t do much in terms of Xs and Os, but I’m probably wrong on that. And pp is probably about more than icing the 5 best players, so I’m just looking for some insights on specific strategies.
Also, I played beer league a while back, and our captain gave some odd guidance. Nice guy, but he got into the game as an adult, and it was just amazing to see everyone standing around, unavailable for passes, be praised as “spreading out”. Ok, ya, the guy behind their net and the one behind their d-man are doing a lot for the breakout.. just interesting to see full-grown men who like this sport be so clueless about it at times, and the head guy kinda guiding it.
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